So sad that a criminal is listed as an influential person. Especially one so cowardly and spineless as to flee instead of actually staying and working towards what he believed in. I hope he lives to a ripe old age and has to spend his life constantly hiding in the shadows in fear. In countries with worse personal liberties and freedoms than the one he fled from.
I'm sorry you feel this way. Very few people here feel that way, in fact, the only people here that feel that way you do usually work for the NSA.
We were caught abusing the rights of the American people and the people's of many other nations.
Obama said recently in an interview that spying in the US was limited by laws in the US. They he added that for the rest of the world, the NSA is not limited by any laws. So I guess that means that the US doesn't care about breaking laws in other countries.
That's a very sour thought, when you chew on the implications of that statement.
What that means to me is that the President is saying that is okay for other countries to ignore USA laws. Like copyright and DMCA.
Back when I was a teenager, we had an underage night club. It was great. 2 kids, who ran away from home to hang out on the streets of Seattle, to go to this nightclub and do other things, had some parents who managed to get a group behind them, to shut down underage night clubs in Seattle. The kicker? They didn't even live in Seattle.
And after the nightclubs got shut down, and those 2 kids went home to new cars and other luxuries, what did all us kids who lived in Seattle have to do? Nothing, go hang on the streets.
Bullshit. People do care about privacy, Im one of them. What do you want, revolution? This administration wont last forever, whether its just a couple years, impeachment, or stroke. A big issue next election will be privacy. Dont count on the Dem side of the Repubmocrat party to hold the throne, though. People have had enough of Omama, just like they had enough of Nixon. Hes just running on momentum and imagination, as it is. Im going to make a prediction, he will be the first president to move out of the U.S.
The people that are spying on us wasn't voted to office, will be there after Obama and his cronies are gone.
So once again, if you truly care, doing nothing won't change anything.
I find after I read a good book that I keep thinking about it for days. Usually on things I think the chars should of did, or how to deal with situation they did.
I rarely get that way after movies or video games, but sometimes I do. (Half-Life 2 I did, really enjoyed that game).
So basically if there is a good story, my mind will keep thinking on it for a few days.
hit enter too soon. Thing about good books is that I usually wish they didn't end. So that could be why I think on it more then I would any other books.
I find after I read a good book that I keep thinking about it for days. Usually on things I think the chars should of did, or how to deal with situation they did.
I rarely get that way after movies or video games, but sometimes I do. (Half-Life 2 I did, really enjoyed that game).
So basically if there is a good story, my mind will keep thinking on it for a few days.
Internet seems to have a popular app life of about 5 years. Then something else comes along and steals peoples interest, takes a few years to get real popular (as in the media), explode with mass users, only to start declining a few years later and the youngsters & hipsters move on to the next "big app"
And I say app, because in reality, that is all the webpages really are that become popular now.
And when it comes down to it, the kids wants there own things, they don't want us older folks and parents hanging out, dampening their style. I know when I was a kid I wanted to be as far from my parents as possible in everything I did.
Sounds like something they'd do to placate "dumb money" angel investors
I do invest in startups and most of the angel investors that I know are not dumb.
That guy is running a publicity stunt.
Transparency can only work up to a point before jealousy creeps in.
There is no way to run an organization with 100% transparency - people will start comparing each others' workload (and/or contribution) with the salary figure.
The art of managing is an ART and it's a very delicate task.
I don't agree. What it does is keep companies from getting over on it's employees. I've found that I was getting paid less then other workers, while having more experience and doing more work. What happened when I complained? I got my pay raised up to what the others were.
I don't know what world you live in, but companies/corporations are about profits only, and they will not only fuck over their employees for profits, but anyone they can.
You sound like you want to fuck over employees so you can get more money for your investments. Makes you scum in my book.
That is if there's any way to get CoD or Portal to run in twenty five years time - easily defeatable or no copy protection on older games makes running them in DOSBox or similar quite easy. Trying to figure out how to work around Steam, Origin or the newer optical media protection systems to allow games to run in emulation in future isn't going to be as simple.
All those games you mentioned have been cracked, drm removed and private servers made for them already.
Look at the stuff in the "MESS and MAME" collection. There's PSX dumps, there's Saturn dumps, and there's a whole bunch of arcade games that I know for a fact cannot be legally distributed (Raiden, Raiden Fighters, a couple of CAVE games, etc). I'm not even sure how legal those ROM dumps are even if you own the original arcade boards- almost all arcade PCBs have hardware protection on them (think of DRM, but a billion times worse), and in order to dump the ROM contents properly and/or run them you'd have to crack that protection first.
I mean, shit, this is basically a ROM hoarders wet dream. I have never ever seen that stuff hosted anywhere other then torrent websites. I'm honestly surprised that archive.org allowed this to be posted and I'm surprised the mamedev guys haven't freaked out over it, because this could potentially attract a lot of negative attention (and mamedev is very, very prone to sudden outbursts of illogical drama).
Only if a ROM hoarder didn't use google, you can get all these files from various websites on the internet for the last decade. No one has shut them down, and it isn't like they have been hiding.
It's like you are new to the internet and computers.
Get with the program: Everything bad that has ever occurred in the 20th century is due to Reagan and Reagan alone. Don't let the corporatist media fool you into thinking that anyone other than Reagan was running the show in the 20th century. DON'T BE A SHEEPLE.
Oh, BTW, Reagan was also so stupid that he couldn't tie his own shoes.
They fooled you. Reagan was a puppet, an actor hired to play a part.
Bill Clinton was the real evil behind America for the last 100 years!
I game with someone who works in a high position at one of the top finical firm. And when stuff like this happens, they hear about it and discuss it, since it affects them.
I can not back this up, this is what is I was told:
The credit card fraud was because some of the CC scanners have an extra chip in them, put in at a factory, that allows backdoor access to those machines. Not all the CC scanners have this, only some.
And of course, the extra chip isn't spec.
The person who told me is out of town till the end of week, so I can't hear any more updates till probably next week on it.
I have prosopagnosia (face blindness) to the extent where I can’t identify myself in photographs. I’ve been to the store with my mother and got separated from her, only to start talking to a woman who had a similar haircut and clothing to her, who was getting very confused as to why some stranger was calling her ‘mom’.
Some kind of facial recognition software would be invaluable to me, but I could not in good conscience use something that did not use just a limited, pre-approved, personal database of people.
You could explain your situation to people and ask them if they mind if you take a photo of them and label it with their name so you can remember them later.
I watched a show about some kids who had no memory, and one of them walks around with a camera around his neck, taking snapshots so he can try to remember stuff he did. No one goes up and punches him for it.
Seems like some of the easiest public sources to recognize and associate faces from would be police mugshot databases and sex offender databases. Will former criminals be actively shunned everywhere they go in public, or even subject to mob violence?
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So sad that a criminal is listed as an influential person. Especially one so cowardly and spineless as to flee instead of actually staying and working towards what he believed in. I hope he lives to a ripe old age and has to spend his life constantly hiding in the shadows in fear. In countries with worse personal liberties and freedoms than the one he fled from.
I'm sorry you feel this way. Very few people here feel that way, in fact, the only people here that feel that way you do usually work for the NSA.
We were caught abusing the rights of the American people and the people's of many other nations.
Obama said recently in an interview that spying in the US was limited by laws in the US. They he added that for the rest of the world, the NSA is not limited by any laws. So I guess that means that the US doesn't care about breaking laws in other countries.
That's a very sour thought, when you chew on the implications of that statement.
What that means to me is that the President is saying that is okay for other countries to ignore USA laws. Like copyright and DMCA.
Still waiting for the first shred of proof that the NSA's dragnet methods do any good whatsoever. Until then: nothing of value was lost.
Americans privacy has been lost. That has value.
Back when I was a teenager, we had an underage night club. It was great. 2 kids, who ran away from home to hang out on the streets of Seattle, to go to this nightclub and do other things, had some parents who managed to get a group behind them, to shut down underage night clubs in Seattle. The kicker? They didn't even live in Seattle.
And after the nightclubs got shut down, and those 2 kids went home to new cars and other luxuries, what did all us kids who lived in Seattle have to do? Nothing, go hang on the streets.
Parents fucking suck.
Bullshit. People do care about privacy, Im one of them.
What do you want, revolution?
This administration wont last forever, whether its just a couple years, impeachment, or stroke.
A big issue next election will be privacy. Dont count on the Dem side of the Repubmocrat party to hold the throne, though.
People have had enough of Omama, just like they had enough of Nixon. Hes just running on momentum and imagination, as it is.
Im going to make a prediction, he will be the first president to move out of the U.S.
The people that are spying on us wasn't voted to office, will be there after Obama and his cronies are gone.
So once again, if you truly care, doing nothing won't change anything.
I find after I read a good book that I keep thinking about it for days. Usually on things I think the chars should of did, or how to deal with situation they did.
I rarely get that way after movies or video games, but sometimes I do. (Half-Life 2 I did, really enjoyed that game).
So basically if there is a good story, my mind will keep thinking on it for a few days.
hit enter too soon. Thing about good books is that I usually wish they didn't end. So that could be why I think on it more then I would any other books.
I find after I read a good book that I keep thinking about it for days. Usually on things I think the chars should of did, or how to deal with situation they did.
I rarely get that way after movies or video games, but sometimes I do. (Half-Life 2 I did, really enjoyed that game).
So basically if there is a good story, my mind will keep thinking on it for a few days.
Internet seems to have a popular app life of about 5 years. Then something else comes along and steals peoples interest, takes a few years to get real popular (as in the media), explode with mass users, only to start declining a few years later and the youngsters & hipsters move on to the next "big app"
And I say app, because in reality, that is all the webpages really are that become popular now.
And when it comes down to it, the kids wants there own things, they don't want us older folks and parents hanging out, dampening their style. I know when I was a kid I wanted to be as far from my parents as possible in everything I did.
Sounds like something they'd do to placate "dumb money" angel investors
I do invest in startups and most of the angel investors that I know are not dumb.
That guy is running a publicity stunt.
Transparency can only work up to a point before jealousy creeps in.
There is no way to run an organization with 100% transparency - people will start comparing each others' workload (and/or contribution) with the salary figure.
The art of managing is an ART and it's a very delicate task.
I don't agree. What it does is keep companies from getting over on it's employees. I've found that I was getting paid less then other workers, while having more experience and doing more work. What happened when I complained? I got my pay raised up to what the others were.
I don't know what world you live in, but companies/corporations are about profits only, and they will not only fuck over their employees for profits, but anyone they can.
You sound like you want to fuck over employees so you can get more money for your investments. Makes you scum in my book.
The Chinese will recover it and put it on display in a Beijing museum. Plastic replicas on sale in the lobby gift shop.
And charge the USA a littering fee
Sure. In exactly the same fashion as unintended casualties are collateral damage.
This is verbiage of the initial Target press release. It sounds like my government talking to me.
They probably hired the same PR firm.
That is if there's any way to get CoD or Portal to run in twenty five years time - easily defeatable or no copy protection on older games makes running them in DOSBox or similar quite easy. Trying to figure out how to work around Steam, Origin or the newer optical media protection systems to allow games to run in emulation in future isn't going to be as simple.
All those games you mentioned have been cracked, drm removed and private servers made for them already.
Pretty much everything gets cracked.
And no one ask me for permission to copy my work. This is a fuck you to creative people who actually spent time in their lives to realize a new idea.
Troll
Look at the stuff in the "MESS and MAME" collection. There's PSX dumps, there's Saturn dumps, and there's a whole bunch of arcade games that I know for a fact cannot be legally distributed (Raiden, Raiden Fighters, a couple of CAVE games, etc). I'm not even sure how legal those ROM dumps are even if you own the original arcade boards- almost all arcade PCBs have hardware protection on them (think of DRM, but a billion times worse), and in order to dump the ROM contents properly and/or run them you'd have to crack that protection first.
I mean, shit, this is basically a ROM hoarders wet dream. I have never ever seen that stuff hosted anywhere other then torrent websites. I'm honestly surprised that archive.org allowed this to be posted and I'm surprised the mamedev guys haven't freaked out over it, because this could potentially attract a lot of negative attention (and mamedev is very, very prone to sudden outbursts of illogical drama).
Only if a ROM hoarder didn't use google, you can get all these files from various websites on the internet for the last decade. No one has shut them down, and it isn't like they have been hiding.
It's like you are new to the internet and computers.
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On the other hand, screw the law. ...
When the lawmakers and the government aren't following it, why should we?
"Exterminate... Exterminate...."
Actually, when they become advanced enough, we won't need to work anymore.
I'll buy TWO. One to do my job and one ... just in case.
Dalek's are mutate life forms, riding in a machine. They are not robots or A.I.'s.
Snowden says he's still working for the NSA but they don't realize it. Does this mean he can sue for back pay?
2014 will be different though.
Nope, I predict that 2014 will get even more ominous predictions then this one.
Get with the program: Everything bad that has ever occurred in the 20th century is due to Reagan and Reagan alone. Don't let the corporatist media fool you into thinking that anyone other than Reagan was running the show in the 20th century. DON'T BE A SHEEPLE.
Oh, BTW, Reagan was also so stupid that he couldn't tie his own shoes.
They fooled you. Reagan was a puppet, an actor hired to play a part.
Bill Clinton was the real evil behind America for the last 100 years!
I game with someone who works in a high position at one of the top finical firm. And when stuff like this happens, they hear about it and discuss it, since it affects them.
I can not back this up, this is what is I was told:
The credit card fraud was because some of the CC scanners have an extra chip in them, put in at a factory, that allows backdoor access to those machines. Not all the CC scanners have this, only some.
And of course, the extra chip isn't spec.
The person who told me is out of town till the end of week, so I can't hear any more updates till probably next week on it.
"A Players" in other words, people that they like,not people who can actually do the job correctly.
Sounds like a crappy place to work, unless you are best buds with the boss.
I'll opt out by smashing anyone wearing Google glasses in the face with a baseball bat.
And you'll be optting in for some serious buttsecks in prison.
I have prosopagnosia (face blindness) to the extent where I can’t identify myself in photographs. I’ve been to the store with my mother and got separated from her, only to start talking to a woman who had a similar haircut and clothing to her, who was getting very confused as to why some stranger was calling her ‘mom’.
Some kind of facial recognition software would be invaluable to me, but I could not in good conscience use something that did not use just a limited, pre-approved, personal database of people.
You could explain your situation to people and ask them if they mind if you take a photo of them and label it with their name so you can remember them later.
I watched a show about some kids who had no memory, and one of them walks around with a camera around his neck, taking snapshots so he can try to remember stuff he did. No one goes up and punches him for it.
Seems like some of the easiest public sources to recognize and associate faces from would be police mugshot databases and sex offender databases. Will former criminals be actively shunned everywhere they go in public, or even subject to mob violence?
Hopefully.
It is quite clear you really don't give a fuck - about anything other than yourself.
No one gives a fuck about the Anonymous Coward.